# sebo
## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēbum (“tallow, grease, suet”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsebo]
* Rhymes: -ebo
* Hyphenation: se‧bo

### Noun

sebo (uncountable, accusative sebon)
* tallow, suet
** 1907, Kabe, chapter 7, in La Faraono, part 2, Hachette, translation of Faraon by Bolesław Prus:Vidante ĉi tiujn fremdulojn, fortajn, malgraciajn, vulgare ridantajn, odorantajn sebon kaj parolantajn nekonatan kaj malmolan lingvon, Ramzes ekbolis.Seeing these strangers – strong, ungracious, laughing vulgarly, smelling of tallow and speaking an unknown and rough language – Ramesses started seething.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sevo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin sēbum (“tallow; suet”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈseβo̝/

### Noun

sebo m (plural sebos)
* tallow
* grease, fat
** 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 147:ponlle papuxas de farellos coytas en vinagre et con pouco de seuoapply a poultice of bran boiled in vinegar, with some tallow
** 1433, A. Rodríguez González & J. Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 22:
    dez libras de sevo para ensevar a dita pinaça
       ten pounds of fat for caulking the aforementioned pinnace

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “sevo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “sevo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sebo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sebo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sebo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēbum. Compare the inherited doublet sego (older sevo).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛ.bo/
* Rhymes: -ɛbo
* Hyphenation: sè‧bo

### Noun

sebo m (plural sebi)
* sebum

#### Related terms

* sebaceo

## Latin
### Noun

sēbō
* dative/ablative singular of sēbum

### References

* “sebo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈse.bu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈse.bu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈse.bo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈse.bu/ [ˈse.βu]
* Rhymes: -ebu
* Hyphenation: se‧bo

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese sevo, from Latin sēbum (“tallow; suet”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out”).

#### Noun

sebo m (plural sebos)
* sebum (oily substance produced by glands of the skin)
* tallow (hard animal fat)
* (loosely) grease; gunk; grime (sticky substance on the surface of things)
    Synonym: graxa

##### Derived terms

* dar sebo nas botas
* ensebado
* ensebar
* limpar o sebo
* metido a sebo
* ora sebo
* passar sebo nas canelas
* pôr sebo nas canelas
* sebenta
* sebento
* sebo nas canelas
* tirar o sebo

##### Related terms

* sebáceo
* seborreia
* seboso

### Etymology 2

Unknown origin, Brazil mid 20th c. Possibly a derivation of the sense of tallow or grime, referring to the use of tallow candles in such stores or to the grime that covers old books, thus having a similar semantic development as sebenta (“textbook”).

#### Noun

sebo m (plural sebos)
* (Brazil) a store where used media (especially books, but also CDs, vinyl records, magazines and such) are sold
    Synonym: (for used books) alfarrabista
    Coordinate term: (used goods in general) brechó
** 2015, Edmilson Naves De Oliveira, Crônicas Urbanas, Revolução eBook, →ISBN:O principal objetivo de uma pessoa ao entrar em um sebo é encontrar alguma obra que faça seus olhos brilharem ou seu coração palpitar. Mas também encontramos gente como a gente que estão ali pelo mesmo motivo ou aqueles que procuram obras específicas como eu que garimpo livros de contos que são os que mais gosto. Em uma das minhas visitas ao sebo de minha cidade eu espremido entre pasteleiras chegando ao fundo vejo várias caixas de disco de vinil, […]A person’s main goal when they enter a used media shop is to find a work that makes their eyes sparkle or their heart skip a beat. But we can also find people like us, who are there for the same reason, or those who are looking for specific works, such as myself, looking for books with short stories which are the ones I like the most. In one of my visits to my city’s used media store, I reached the back, squeezed between the shelves, and see various boxes with vinyl records, […]
** 2016, Adauto De Andrade, Filosofices De Um Velho Causídico, Clube de Autores, page 190:Você está vendo um cara estranho cheirar as páginas de um livro antigo em um sebo? Esse é o leitor. Nunca resiste a cheirar as páginas, especialmente quando ficaram amarelas. Ele é o cara que não tem medo de se sentar sozinho num café, num bar, num restaurante. Mas, se você olhar bem, ele nunca está sozinho: tem sempre um livro por perto.Can you imagine a weird guy smelling the pages of an old book in a used bookstore. This is the reader. He can’t resist smelling pages, especially once they have turned yellow. He is the guy who is not afraid to sit alone in a café, in a bar, in a restaurant. But, if you look closely, he is never alone: there is always a book nearby.
** 2017, Gabriel Perissé, Literatura & Educação, Autêntica, →ISBN:Entramos numa livraria, num sebo, visitamos um site, os autores saltam à nossa frente, querem chamar nossa atenção, querem fazer parte da nossa biblioteca. Todos querem nos ensinar silenciosamente, estimular.We got into a bookstore, a used bookstore, we browsed a website, the authors jump in front of us, they want to draw our attention, they want to be part of our library. All of them want to teach us silently, to stimulate us.

### Further reading

* “sebo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “sebo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin sēbum, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsebo/ [ˈse.β̞o]
* Rhymes: -ebo
* Syllabification: se‧bo

### Noun

sebo m (plural sebos)
* sebum, suet
* tallow
* (colloquial) flab; fat

#### Related terms

* sebáceo
* seboso

#### Descendants

* → Mecayapan Nahuatl: xe̱poj

### Further reading

* “sebo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sebo, from Latin sēbum.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈsebo/ [ˈsɛː.bo]
* Rhymes: -ebo
* Syllabification: se‧bo

### Noun

sebo (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜊᜓ)
* tallow; fat; suet
    Synonym: taba
* shoe polish

#### Derived terms

* malasebo
* masebo
* palosebo
* sebo de matso

#### See also

* linab

### Further reading

* “sebo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* beso